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Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 2

In order that the observing powers of the children under their care tnay be brought out and cultivated, some schoolmasters find it desirable to take their scholars to task about the common things they see in the street or in their homes. The Anderson Bay School is a case in point. Recently the headmaster examined his pupils in this manner. In the estimation of different scholars the height of the electric tramway poles varied from 15ft to 330 ft, and the gauge between the rails from 3ft to 7ft 6ih. Then general knowledge was tested, and the names of (Government officials asked for. Some ingenuous answere were recorded. One lad, in reply to the query : “Who is.the Premier of Great Britain ?*' wrote " The Duke of Wales,” and another “ The late J. G. Ward.” “Edward VII. ” was said to be the Governor of Xew Zealand. “ D.D.” was supposed to represent “Dunedin Drainage.” The pupils were unanimous in the opinion as to whose was the best pie-shop in town. One young hopeful, with a s&mewhat distorted idea of rank, gave the mayoralty chair of Dunedin to ‘‘Sir Joseph Braithwaite,” Professor Bay Lankester was illuminating upon the subject of the elephant in his lecture at the London Institution. Lantern glides illustrated his story of the monster's evolution from mastodons. The . long upper lip of the mastodon, resting on a long Jcwcr jaw, corresponded with the trunk of the elephant ns’we know him. “The elephant's trunk originated through, a shortening of the lower jaw. Therefore," the lecturer said, “I am sorry to upset Ur Rudyard Kipling's' explanation that the length of the trunk was accounted for by its having been pulled bv the- crocodile.” ' A dose or two of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy will relievo cramp, colic, or a tain in the stonuMk.— £Advt.j